ingStr is a game about string manipulation meant to be played between a server and player clients.
You need to have an App_id and add_key from Oxford dictionary api
Run the following commands:
pip install requestsexport APP_ID=<YOUR_APP_ID_FROM_OXFORD_DICTIONARY>export APP_KEY=<YOUR_APP_KEY_FROM_OXFORD_DICTIONARY>
NOTE: You can add the exports in your bash_profile or equivalent file
- Playing field: all available strings in play.
- Player inventory: collection of words the player has formed.
Set-up:
- Players input server IP address and name
- Server generates a random 30-character string
- Server starts by granting a turn to a player
Progression:
- Players use string commands (substring, concat, reverse) to manipulate the strings on the playing field.
- Their objective is to isolate a valid word (length > 2 and in English dictionary) in order to add it to their inventory.
- Players can use up to three commands per turn.
Resolution:
- Game ends after both players acknowledge no other words can be formed.
- Alternatively, if 7 or less characters remain in play and no words have been formed in 5 collective turns (a turn for player 1 and a turn for player 2 counts as a collective turn)
- The player with the most amount of characters in their inventory wins (that is, the player with the greater sum of lengths of all their formed words)
- If this results in a tie, the player with the longest word wins.
- If both have the same length for their longest word, the next-longest word is compared, until either player runs out of words.
- If both run out of words at the same time, the game results in a tie.
Notes:
- Words on the playing field are identified by their word_id (sequential and 0-indexed)
- Characters on words are also 0-indexed
substring [word_id] [low_bound] [up_bound]
Definition: extracts a substring from a given word, adds it as a new string in the playing field and joins the remaining fragments of the string (if there are any). Low_bound and up_bound are inclusive.
Example:
0 ABCDEF
1 GHIJKL
Query: substring 1 2 4
Result:
0 ABCDEF
1 GHL
2 IJK
concat [word1_id] [word2_id]
Definition: combines two strings in the playing field to form a new one. Order of parameters does affect the generated string (concat 0 1 is different than concat 1 0). Word2_id is added to the end of word1_id. New string is added to the very end of the playing field.
Example:
0 AB
1 CD
2 EF
Query: concat 0 2
Result:
0 CD
1 ABEF
reverse [word_id]
Definition: inverts the order of the characters in a string.
Example:
0 ABC
1 DEF
Query: reverse 0
Result:
0 CBA
1 DEF
identify [word_id]
Definition: removes the word from the playing field and adds the word to a player's inventory (words array in players).
Example:
0 ABC
1 DEF
Query: identify 0
Result:
0 DEF
end_turn
Definition: ends a player's turn and passes control over to other player.
end
Definition: ends the game. Server should calculate players' points and display the result, along with the words each player identified.